Online Resources

For Teachers

Vocal Health for children and adults

Singing during Voice Change: Boiling Frogs and Tipping Points

The child’s voice – what it can and can’t do

Vocal exercises

Glossary of Singing Voice Terms

Warming-up – what are we trying to achieve?

Vibrato

‘Tilting’ – a Quixotic Pursuit?

Allocation of choral parts – the compromise

Bibliography of books, and articles on children’s singing

Inside the Voice – this is an ebook on the Sing up website. You can join as a friend of Sing up for free. This then entitles you to download many resources, including all six chapters of Inside the Voice.

Recording of Julia Doyle and Matthew Wadsworth

ViP handouts 14.10.20

For Students

How your voice works

How to practise

From boys to men – the changing adolescent voice Q & A

Warm-ups for singers

Singers and the Common Cold – Tom Harris

Singing Growth Mindset

Research-based Publications

Which sung pitch range is best for boys during voice change? Journal of Voice, in press

Sound files for Journal of Voice “What pitch range is best for boys during voice change?
Speech 10yrs : Song 10yrs : Speech 13yrs : Song 13yrs

PhD 2010 The implications of intensive singing training on the vocal health and development of boy choristers in an English cathedral choir

Chorister research – summary

Chorister research – preliminary findings 2005

Teaching young singers safely

Warm-ups, are they really necessary?

Use of spectrographic displays in the teaching studio